The babies don't suffer? You wrote, "Their lives are not painful at the end." No, I suppose their lives aren't painful at the end after they have suffered from seizures and spasms and being unable to swallow and finally, losing any mental ability/awareness. I suppose after slowly devolving into madness/insanity/total mental incompetence they don't show symptoms of pain.
I wonder how many anti-abortionists have been to a hospital specializing in sick children. Just as some people insist on those physicians who provide abortions being obliged to explain the procedure, how big the fetus is, etc., perhaps those who insist on bearing a child afflicted with a genetic illness should be required to visit a hospital that specializes in those illnesses. Make it mandatory for the person to view the agony those children endure, on a daily basis, before going through with the delivery. Wouldn't that be fair?
As for killing a human being abortion prevents a fetus from developing into a human being. Allowing a process to continue for nine months, knowing the result will be a human being who will suffer and die within a few years, is a good thing? Good for what, exactly?
The arrogance and selfishness comes from those who insist human beings go through the suffering.
As for unwanted/abused/neglected children having a bad life all one has to do is look at the prison population.
If one wants to reduce the number of abortions start by looking after the children already here. Show us those born in poverty will have equal access to a university education and a decent job. Show us single mothers will have day care and support. Show us those kids will have a proper diet and decent clothes to wear. Just show us the anti-abortionists really do give a damn. That's all.
(Excerpt) Although the incidence of child abuse and neglect has been decreasing in recent years, more than 1.25 million, or 1 in every 58 children in the United States, were abused in 2006.
An average of nearly four children die every day as a result of child abuse or neglect (1,760 in 2007).
Children in low socioeconomic families have more than three times the rate of child abuse and seven times the rate of neglect than other children. (End)
http://pediatrics.about.com/od/childabuse/a/05_abuse_stats.htm
That, in a society where abortion is freely available. Imagine a society where abortion was illegal. Imagine a society where people had to bear children they did not want.